How my heart has hungered and thirsted for this blessed Truth! From childhood I said: There must be a better way, if I could only find it. And now, as I look down the vista of years, I can see how wonderful my leadings have been. I have followed on and on, until I find myself anchored in Christian Science, ready to go about my Father's business. The intense desire to be good, and to do good, has been the incentive that has propelled me. How many times have I almost given up in despair and said, Must I accept what I have been taught from infancy? And in my agony I have cried out No, no; there is a better way; man's way is not God's way; I will know and understand God aright, and that Bible. With this burning zeal I grasped anything that seemed better than what I had. From Orthodoxy I was led through my marriage into Universalism; then into mental science, from there into the Unity teaching, where, for a while, I was able to demonstrate over many unpleasant conditions, and find a peace and joy that I had been a stranger to.
But a day came when I was compelled to acknowledge there was error in the teaching; for, try as I would, I failed to demonstrate harmony. The unhappy state I was in, soon produced the corresponding seeming, in my body. Then came the conflict between Truth and error.
At this time a Christian Scientist told me to repeat often, the "Scientific Statement of Being," by Mrs. Eddy; also to read Science and Health. I did this faithfully for six weeks, then came the revelation of Truth, and the shackles of mortal mind (so-called) were stricken off, and I was free. Healed of a hereditary belief that, ere this time, would have sent me to the grave, my heart was filled and thrilled with love to God and man, and my desire and prayer is to so live that my life may be a bright and shining light for the glory of God.
